Bekir Ercan Van

Bekir Ercan Van was a Brigadier-General of the Turkish Air Force.

Biography
Bekir Ercan Van was born in Turkey to a Sunni Muslim family, and he became a Brigadier-General of the Turkish Air Force. Van was given command of the Incirlik Air Base of NATO, allowing the US Air Force to launch airstrikes against the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq during the Syrian Civil War, and in July 2016 he took part in the 2016 Turkish coup attempt.